MapTweets

Display tweets about a certain topic on a Google Maps map in real time

mapTweets is a very small JavaScript "plugin" that will allow you to display in real time what people are saying about any topic you want.

It's live on nuostudio's lab, although you can simply clone the repo and open index.html in your browser.

##Requirements:## mapTweets requires the following libraries and APIs to work:

• jQuery
• Google Maps JavaScript API v3
• langCountries.js (included)
• countries.js (included)

Note: mapTweets doesn't create the map, it takes it as a parameter.

##Usage:## There is not much configuration at the moment, all you have to do is include all required files and create a new Google Maps map.

Here is the usual code you would use to embed a map:

var opts = {
  zoom: 1,
  center: new google.maps.LatLng(0, 0),
  mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
},
map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map'), opts),

Now you must initialize mapTweets, it requires the map handle and a topic to search for. Note: It doesn't start automatically, so you will have to call start()

var tweets = new mapTweets(map,'Github');
tweets.start();

Feel free to fork this project and help along!

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Licensed under the MIT license - Developed by Alejandro U. Alvarez